As the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) announced plans to hold a referendum on whether to return to the Russian Federation as soon as possible on the 27th, concerns are rising that Ukraine could become a ‘second divided country’ by splitting it into east and west.
Ukraine’s defense intelligence chief Kirillo Budanov said on Tuesday that the country was attempting to split Ukraine into halves like the Korean Peninsula after Russia’s failure to take over all of Ukraine, according to Reuters.
“In fact, this is an attempt to create South and North Korea in Ukraine,” Budanov said in a statement.
In 2013, in Ukraine, anti-government protests called ‘Euro Maidan’ were held in Ukraine by citizens protesting the pro-Russian policy of then-President Viktor Yanukovych.
In the process, in March of the following year, Russia obtained a referendum while occupying the Crimea by force and annexed the region. This led to armed conflict between pro-Western and pro-Russian forces in the Donbas region (part of Luhansk and Donetsk Oblast) in eastern Ukraine. It was amplified and extended to a civil war in April.
In May of the same year, the Donbas region occupied by pro-Russian separatist rebels conducted a referendum for independence from Ukraine and established the People’s Republic of Luhansk and Donetsk (DPR). The international community does not recognize these governments.
On the other hand, Russia approved the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics declared by pro-Russian separatists on the 21st of last month, three days before the invasion of Ukraine, and ordered the dispatch of Russian troops to the region.
Meanwhile, on the 25th, more than a month before the start of the war, Russia changed its original goal of capturing the Ukraine capital Kiiu and revised its plan to concentrate its military forces for the complete liberation of the eastern Donbas region.
“Our military will focus on the complete liberation of the most important Donbas region,” said Sergei Rudskoy, deputy chief of the Russian army.
As a result, Western media reported that Russia would retake the Donbas region to come up with an exit strategy as the war entered the protracted phase and struggled with logistical problems and Western sanctions, as opposed to the previous plan. predicted to see
(Seoul = News 1)
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